'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [209r] (422/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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both his brothers
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Iqtidar, and Sa’id-ud-Dauleb, and
■sometimes with bis father, the point of dispute between them
being the management and succession to Sipab Salar’s property.
He owns some villages in the Rudbar district of Kazvin
with residences at Mu’allim Kalayeh and Zavardasht, and near
Oishlaq North of the Tehran-Kazvin road, with a residence
at Atanak. He was for many years Governor of Tunakabun
and the revolt of the Kujuris was largely due to his rapacity.
He is a coarse lethargic individual, an arrant coward, lacking
in personality, and a reactionary.
No. 57. ASAD-US-SULTANEH.
Born about 1885. Studied medicine in France and is
sensible and friendly. He is related to Sipah Salar and was
managing his Tunakabun estates in 1919.
Mo. 58. INTIZAM-US-SULTAN, Allah Quit Khan, Sartip.
Born about 1875. Chief of the Kalardasht section of the
Khwajahvand tribe and lives at Hasan Kif. He is evoic o
personality.
No. 59. SA’ID-UD-DAULEH, All Asghar Khan.
Born about 1898. Youngest son of Sipah Salar and inherits
his father’s eccentricities. In 1918 when m charge of Sipah
Salar’s Kazvin estates he suddenly left for Tunakabun, footing
prince ’ Ain-us-Sultaneh’s (No. 107) residence m Alamut on his
wav He turned out bis uncle
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Kabir (No. 63), occupied
Tunakabun, and collected men putting out posts as Tar as
Alamut whence he attacked the villages of Amir Asad (No. 109)
Ws
broker
Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation.
and
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Sa’id (No. 116) in Rudbar. He was
unable to keep the Kujuris out of Khurramabad and retired to
the ridge of Ghalleh Gardan, South of it, during their second
foray in the spring of 1919.
He disarmed some Jangalis who came from Gilan to Tuna
kabun shortly after, but was suspected by the Persian Cossacks
in pursuit of them of secretly ^intriguing with the Jangalis,
whereupon he fled from Tunakabun and joined his father m
Tabriz, P who made him Governor of Sarab. He formed a con
spiracy to assassinate the Prime Minister Vusuq-ud-Dauleh and
others, and on his return to Tehran was arrested and sent via
Baghdad to Europe.
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
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- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 303; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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